If you let a single ray of light through the shutter, it will go on diffusing itself without limit till it enlightens the world; but the shadow that was never so wide at first, as rapidly contracts till it comes to naught.
Gazing
out of the window of the Century Building just above the arched entrance of massive rock masonry, fixed and unchangeable in its entirety, I saw its reflection in the window of the building opposite.
Willard S. Mattox
with contributions from Albert E. Miller
The prayer of enlightened faith, by which Christian Science heals, is the prayer which understands or realizes that all good is already accomplished, and that God has never willed that man should be sick, or that he should be a sinner.
As in the science of mathematics, if we incorporate error or falsity into our statements we find error and falsity in the conclusion, so in our problem of life we must include in our premises only those things which we wish realized in our experience.
Recent events have revealed that the public is deeply interested in this new-old religion; that prejudice is gradually yielding to fair judgment; that kindness and generosity find a larger place in the minds of men than heretofore; that the trend of opinion is more or less characterized by justice, and that opposition is confined within comparatively narrow limits.
RECENTLY,
when talking to a patient who had been brought out of a severe trouble and the keen suffering attendant upon it, and who had formerly been through the same experience without the aid of Christian Science, the thought came, what a difference there is in human experience without a knowledge of Christian Science and with it.
